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Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination [PDF]
Critical Criminological Perspectives, 2018 In this chapter we reflect upon the concept of ‘agnotology’ and its usefulness for the expansion of a zemiological criminology. Initially presented as an analytical tool in the fields of science and medicine, agnotology explores the social and political underpinnings of forms of ignorance and their role in both generating and securing acquiescence in ...
Alana Barton
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Agnotology and information [PDF]
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015 ABSTRACT Agnotology was coined in an effort to create a title for a project to build an understanding of ignorance. The poster proposed seeks to re‐introduce ignorance to information science through the comparison of the construction of ignorance in agnotology and the construction of information in information science.
T. Zachary Frazier
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Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease, and Agnotology
Movement Disorders, 2023 Movement Disorders, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 949-952, June 2023.
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For the Greater Good? The Devastating Ripple Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 As the crisis around Covid-19 evolves, it becomes clear that there are numerous negative side-effects of the lockdown strategies implemented by many countries.
Michaéla C. Schippers
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Evidence, rationality, and ignorance: Agnotological issues in COVID-19 science [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020 Two decades ago, Robert Proctor coined the term agnotology to refer to the study of ignorance that stems from scientific research. Amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, the world is witnessing the greatest natural experiment ever, and countries have ...
Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza
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What you don’t know won’t hurt you – Agnotology in anti-doping [PDF]
Current Issues in Sport Science, 2023 When studying the production of knowledge for policy, focus is typically on science that is being done and taken up. This paper looks at the other side of the coin: science that remains undone or unseen.
Marjolaine Viret, Fabien Ohl
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Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2014 The recent commercialization and privatization of scientific research has reconfigured the organization of science worldwide, fostering new scientific practices and new political tools to manage scientific research. Focusing on the mechanisms of ignorance production, the recent literature in agnotology has been a fruitful approach for understanding the
Manuela Fernández Pinto
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Contaminant Denialism in Water Governance
Water Resources ResearchNoting that contaminant denialism is an increasing problem in environmental governance globally, this study describes public communication strategies that inappropriately minimize the problem of contaminants in respect of sewage discharges in and around ...
Lesley Green +7 more
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Covid-19: agnotology, inequality, and leadership [PDF]
Human Resource Development International, 2020 I use the concept of agnotology to examine the way in which the UK government diverted the public gaze from lack of equipment and hidden privatization by claiming to ‘follow the science’ and so ado...
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Agnotology, Trustworthiness, and Uncertainty in the Presentation of Research Findings [PDF]
Human Research in RehabilitationAs editors and scholars, we have a few serious concerns about the presentation of research findings in refereed journals. These concerns range from a lack of theoretical, research, or contextual foundation to misinterpretation of information to a ...
Peter V. Paul, Husnija Hasanbegovic
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